The EU has failed on Gaza
If this peace holds, it is no thanks to an impotent and dithering continental bloc
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Hans Kundnani
Hans Kundnani is an OSF Ideas Workshop fellow and the author of Eurowhiteness and The Paradox of German Power. He is also a New Statesman columnist.
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